1. stead - Noun
2. stead - Verb
3. Stead - Proper noun
Place, or spot, in general.
Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
A farmhouse and offices.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
To fill place of.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOn the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. Helen Hunt Jackson
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. Loretta Young
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us”-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it. Randall Jarrell
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. Henry David Thoreau
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone. Margaret Atwood
Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer-whether animal or man-perishes with his false beliefs. Karl Popper